The Difficulty in Uprooting False Ideology

6 Elul 5786 

When I was growing up in Texas, we had this very nice grass in our yard that made for a beautiful and comfortable lawn.  It was called St. Augustine grass.  Occasionally, a foreign invader would appear - Johnsongrass - and it had to be uprooted fast before it multiplied.  The memorable thing about Johnsongrass is that it was so very difficult to uproot.  It hung on so tenaciously to the soil that it was impossible to pull up by hand.  You had to actually take a spade and dig the thing out of the ground. 

This is how false ideologies take hold in a person's mind.  Erroneous ideas, once rooted, are very, very difficult (and sometimes impossible) to eradicate.  And one always leads to another, and another, and another until, if left in place, it takes over the entire lawn.  And just like the Johnsongrass, it can prove to be poisonous.

From where I sit, Zionism is the spiritual equivalent of Johnsongrass.  Sure, it's a grass, but you still don't want it growing in your lawn.  It is itself unsightly and even more so when mixed in together with the traditional lawn grass.  It adds nothing, but it takes away much.

Johnsongrass is very detrimental to other grasses and crops. It is an aggressive, invasive weed that outcompetes desirable forage and native grasses by blocking their sunlight, stealing water and nutrients, and spreading rapidly through a massive network of underground roots and seeds.

Under stress, johnsongrass can become poisonous and produce toxic amounts of prussic acid (cyanide) following frost, drought or physical stress such as from trampling. All livestock are susceptible to cyanide poisoning, but ruminant animals are the most susceptible. Cyanide is rapidly active in cattle and can cause symptoms within five minutes after ingesting. Death can occur in as little as 15 minutes or within a few hours. Additionally, the plant can accumulate high nitrate levels and produce nitrate poisoning in sheep and cattle. The plant could develop high nitrate levels after fertilization and during drought. Horses should never graze johnsongrass because of the potential for sorghum cystitis, which can eventually cause permanent damage to a horse’s spinal cord.

Native to Turkey, the grass was introduced in the southeastern U.S. in South Carolina in the early 1800s. Johnsongrass is named after Colonel William Johnson, who planted the species on his river bottom farm in Alabama around 1840. Since its introduction, the grass has spread throughout the southern U.S. and is now listed as a noxious weed in 46 states. It is so highly invasive and yield-limiting in crops that it ranks as one of the 10 worst weeds in the world.  (Source)

The very fact that there are Chr*stian Zionists and Arab Zionists is a good clue that Zionism is not Jewish.  But, it IS Israeli!  The IDF is not a Jewish army, but it is the Israeli army.  The Knesset is not a Jewish institution, but it is Israeli.

The Zionists did not create a Jewish State here, but they did create an Israeli State - not Judea, but Israel!  And it is a nation of a mixture of Jews and gentiles - Chr*stians, Muslims, and many others.  Its laws and values are Western-oriented and disconnected from the Torah of the Jews.

What is Religious Zionism then but Zionism practiced religiously!!!!

Those who practice this hybrid religion would have you believe that everyone who is anti-Zionist is an enemy of the Jews.  That's a clump of Johnsongrass growing in your brain.  

ALL of the "-isms" will eventually be uprooted and cast into a heap for destruction.  Torah, and the Jews who faithfully cling to it, are all that's eternal.